Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:16:19 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:01:06 -0400 Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> wrote:
> I'm going to agree with Tejun, that tweaking worker thread priorities > seems like an odd thing, since they are meant to handle deferable > actions - things that can be put off until later.
Disagree. If you're in an interrupt handler and have some work which you want done in process context and you want it done RIGHT NOW then handing that work off to a realtime-policy worker thread is a fine way of doing that.
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